Because it was running so slow, I removed Fedora, and installed another distro that runs quite well on it. I would rather run Fedora if I can. A number of you have given me suggestions, and I'm going to give them a try. Thanks Jim On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 09:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 20:28 -0500, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > > The machine has 256mb of ram. Someone here on the list suggested that > > I check and make sure that a swap partition had been created during > > the > > install. I would have to re-install fedora to know for sure. I might > > try > > re-installing Fedora on the weekend, and set the partitions manually, > > instead auto like I normally do. In order to give you a better > > description of how the machine acts when I try and run Fedora on it, > > I'm > > sure most of you have encountered a windows based machine that's > > infested with viruses and spyware. You know how when you go to > > minimize > > a program on an infested pc, the window will slowly scroll down the > > screen? That's a good description on how the machine acts. To me, it > > acts like it's bogged down. > > Hope this helps. > > Thanks > > Jim > I am not sure what you are saying. fdisk will tell you if you have a > swap partition as will the contents of /etc/fstab. free will tell you if > it is working. If not swapon will get it to work, top will tell you how > bogged sown the machine is as will uptime. top will also tell you what > processes are running and how much of the resources you are using. The > that 256mb is a little on the low side for RAM. > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >
